Follow planning and zoning changes in your area — without checking every city website.
We monitor planning and zoning activity across the cities we cover, so you don’t have to. Track proposed developments and zoning changes in your metro, see who’s filing, review the source documents where available, and get email alerts for projects matching your selected locations and keywords.
The most recently processed rezonings across the metro whose hearing is still ahead or not yet scheduled, as the packets state them.
Rezoning, from Neighborhood Service (NS) to Single-Family Residential (R-1) District, 7.77 acres.
A request to rezone approximately 7.77 acres from Neighborhood Service (NS) to Single-Family Residential (R-1) on properties located at 2821 and 2829 Harkey Road. Staff recommended approval, and the Planning & Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve the zone change, though discussion noted potential setback impacts to adjacent NS-zoned properties to the east.
Rezoning for detention and utility uses, requested zoning PD, Planned Development District, 8.501 acres.
This case involves a request to rezone approximately 8.5 acres to a new Planned Development District to allow detention and utility uses. The rezoning includes a concurrent amendment to the Comprehensive Plan's Future Land Use and Character map where the proposed zoning deviates from the plan.
Fewer than 3 rezonings with a hearing ahead are on file for Houston right now — these are all of them.
Public Planning & Zoning agendas from 39 Houston municipalities, read as each packet is captured. We extract the cases our reader supports; coverage and field completeness vary by city and packet. Alerts follow the processing of a matching case. Coverage →
Within the City of Houston, which has no zoning ordinance, the items we track are the Planning Commission's plats and variances; the rezonings on these pages come from the surrounding cities we cover.
Notice rarely reaches you. Where a city mails notice, it usually goes only to owners within a set distance of the site — often a few hundred feet, though the rule varies by state and city. Own land across the road or sit under contract nearby and you may be outside it, with no letter on the way.
The window can be short. Many cities post agendas close to their legal minimum, so a case can be filed, heard and decided between two weekly portal checks. Among the cases we processed before their hearing, the median advance notice is 5 days — a median across that population, not a promise for every case or city.
What that looks like: land going multi-family a block from your next closing; a neighbour assembling next to your holdings; a staff report recommending denial on a tract you’d buy at the right basis; a specific-use permit on the corner your listing faces.
First observation, hearing scheduled, continued, advanced from Planning & Zoning to Council — each stage as we observe it on the agendas.
We flag cases where the packet’s staff recommendation is denial, or that keep being continued. A switch sends you only those. That is a staff recommendation or a scheduling signal, not an official denial: we read agendas, not votes.
Add properties you own or have under contract and pick a radius. Anything filed near one is reported with its distance and the property it’s next to — whether or not it matches your keywords. Texas cities are only required to mail notice to owners within 200 feet of a site; our default ring is 1,000 feet.
This replaces checking dozens of portals by hand and reading packets that run to hundreds of pages; a match reaches you as a short email once the captured packet is processed. Packets beyond our size limits are read as a bounded prefix.
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Builders and development companies, brokers, land acquisition and assemblage teams, civil engineers and planners — and anyone following planning and zoning.
Rezonings and SUPs with acreage, requested zoning and petitioner as the packets list them, when the packet is captured — not when the sign goes up. A proposal is not an approval, and a staff recommendation is not a vote.
Know what’s moving around the property: case numbers, hearing dates, staff recommendations where stated.
Filings, what each city’s staff recommends, and how long items sit between stages. Outcomes are decided in minutes we don’t collect, so we won’t tell you what passed. Pull the same data by API and MCP.
Data centers are the largest land, power and construction decisions most cities will see this decade, and they surface first in the same public record as every other project: a rezoning or specific-use request, a site plan, a substation or transmission item on the agenda. P&Z Radar reads those filings and records each project’s stage and next public decision as the packets state them, linked to the packet.
The result: a searchable record of proposed campuses by metro — who is filing, where, what is requested, the staff recommendation where the packet states one, and when the commission and council meet — reviewed before publication. Track the projects that matter to you and get a short brief when something changes.
For site selectors, utilities and suppliers, brokers and land teams, and local officials. A filing is a proposal until the commission votes and the site is permitted and built; we say what the record says and no more.
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